Sounds like a lot doesn’t it? Obama is certainly hoping so, at least thats how it seems after reading this article…
You see, Obama isn’t stupid and he has noticed that people are not happy about this nation’s spending and so he is doing his part in making cuts… So lets look at this number. Obama proposed a budget of $3.6 trillion dollars for the next fiscal year… The problem with this budget is that it would increase our debt by more than $9 trillion over the next decade… So the seemingly large $100 million he is “saving” amounts to a fraction of a percent of just next year’s budget. And the thing about government spending is that it never really goes away, sure they may cut, 1%, 5%, even 10% but when the government starts spending money on something they don’t really stop.
So although he’ll be focusing on his great cost savings, and the number does look good on paper, in the end it is nothing more than propaganda to get his agenda through. Why doesn’t he propose a smaller budget and introduce billions in cuts instead of increase the budget deficit by record amounts?
